Art: Wright's Time

A quarter-century ago, Chicago and the
Midwest were startled by the appearance, here and there amid the
contemporary melange of Victorian residences, of an occasional long,
low rectilinear structure with severe walls of stone or stucco, and
wide, overhanging roof casting deep horizontal bands of shadow on the
walls. Such houses looked simple to build, serene and solid, but their
blocky squareness, their squatness, aroused comment more hostile than
surprised. People with established fortunes and homes suspected that
only the ''newly rich" would employ so queer an architect. In the
East,...